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W. OWEN `Car Wheel.

Pand June 29.1869.

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WILLIAM OWEN, OF HUBBARD, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, DANIEL B. STAMBAUGH, OF SAME PLACE, AND DANIEL SMITH, OF GIRARD, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 91,863, dated June 29, 1869.

IIVIPROVED SELF-OILING- CAR-WHEEL To all whom t't may concern.:

Be it known that LWILLIAM Owen, of Hubbard,

in the county of Trnmbull, and State of Ohio, haveinventcd a new and improved Self-Oiling Car-Wheel and I' do hereby declare that the'following is a full,

` clear, and exact description thereoi', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide car and other'wheels, which run Aloose upon their axles, with oil-chamhers, arranged to de'liver the oil upon the axles while running, hut to withhold it while standing, and in which the oil will be retained without plugs or stoppers.

Figure 1 represents a sidelelevation of a wheel constrncted with my improved oiling-de\'ice.

Figure 2 represents a section of the same, taken on the line :zz-x of fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding` parts. 4

I form, by casting or otherwise,'one or more circnlar oil-chambers, A, on the exterior of the hub, parallel with the hol-e, having coneave outer ends B, with sn'i'all central openings for pouring in the oil, and near the other ends' provided internally with diaphragms O, having openings near the walls opposite the hub.

lspaces. D.

From the spaces D, into which these openings lead, openings E are formed with the bore or central hole i'or the axle.

The oil being pouredsin through the openings in the concave ends until the chambers are nearlyhalf filled, cannot flow out, as it will always oceupy the lowest place in the said chambers.

lVhen the openings in the diaphragms O are lowes't', smalhquantities will pass through into the spaces D, and be delivered on to the axle, when the oharnhers rise to the top.

The oil will not flow upon the axle while the Wheels' are standing, or When the chambers are above the axle. The diaphragms prevent the flow into the iied.4

WILLIAM OWEN.

lVitn esses W. J. J Acxson, J N. COWDEBY. 

